Kurt Wimmer (born 1964) is an American

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

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and

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Biography

He attended the

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and graduated with a BFA degree in

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. He then moved to

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, where he worked for 12 years as a screenwriter before directing the 2002 film '' Equilibrium''. In numerous interviews, he cites ''Equilibrium'' as his directorial debut and first film, although his actual directorial debut was the 1995 action film ''

One Tough Bastard ''One Tough Bastard'', also known as ''One Man's Justice'', is a 1995 American action-thriller, action thriller film directed by Kurt Wimmer in his feature film debut, and starring Brian Bosworth, Bruce Payne and M.C. Hammer. It premiered in the U ...

'' starring

Brian Bosworth Brian Keith Bosworth (born March 9, 1965), nicknamed "The Boz," is an American former football linebacker and actor who played in the National Football League (NFL) for three seasons with the Seattle Seahawks. A two-time Dick Butkus Award winne ...

and

Bruce Payne Bruce Martyn Payne (born 22 November 1958) is an English actor, producer, screenwriter, film director and theatre director. Payne is best known for portraying villains, such as Charles Rane in ''Passenger 57'', Jacob Kell in '' Highlander: End ...

. However, ''Equilibrium'' was his first theatrically released film.

Filmography

References

External links

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10 Questions with Kurt Wimmer
1964 births American film directors American male screenwriters Science fiction film directors Living people University of South Florida alumni Place of birth missing (living people) American people of German descent {{US-screen-writer-stub